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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHey soccer fans! Ann Coulter says your interest in the game is a sign of moral decay
I am not making this shit up.
Really. I hope you foreign socialists who waved American flags and screamed "USA! USA!" today heed Ann's words of wisdom. See her lists of reasons soccer is a threat to our nation here including:
Liberal moms like soccer because its a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys.
No other sport ends in as many scoreless ties as soccer.
maced666
(771 posts)The one time soccer interests me and I'm told - what?!
F.
U.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)I always thought that the phrase "soccer mom" referred to 'Middle class America'. Now it's something to frown at, Un-American. The GOP are so divisive.
When Sarah Palin was running for VP, she proudly referred to herself as a soccer mom. Ann needs to send her a Tweet on the 'soccer mom' update. Fucking stupid
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I'd like to see her and Coulter spit, hiss and claw at each other.
I'm not a violent person, but that would be fun to watch!
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Since hockey is a macho sport with lots of high speed collisions, fist fights, blood and missing teeth, it's more American than soccer which Palin and (apparently) Coulter perceive to be a candy ass sport.
It's actually pretty funny. She gets extra points for sticking in a reference to singing Kumbiya, almost a requirement if you're trying to ridicule "liberals". If you want to talk about liberals singing Kumbiya, you have to do it in a girlish falsetto, in order to demonstrate that not only are liberals naive, they are also somewhat effeminate.
Actually its probably best to ignore her. This is just one more giant step on her slide into irrelevancy.
Cresent City Kid
(1,621 posts)O fer da love o' Pete!
alp227
(32,006 posts)And c'mon, Coulter. Some of the statements made in the column could easily be said more concisely with the N-word and B-word, just like those evil liberal rappers you hate.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)....without pissing herself to get to a 7AM appearance on FUX and Friends.
alp227
(32,006 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)I have no knowledge as to whether or not that is really her favorite sport, but I'm willing to concede the poster's statement.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I guess I don't fit Annthrax's definition of an "American". One great-grandfather was born in Scotland, another in Germany, another in Austria, and the last in Ireland. Silly me. I thought being white would have sufficed.
P.S. GO USA!!
Kber
(5,043 posts)I mean she's strung together the most offensive and nonsensical shit she can think of to see who bites, just for the attention.
No need to play along.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Kber
(5,043 posts)I think that ship sailed in 2008.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)Again. I'll take that as a compliment.
sarisataka
(18,497 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)I keep forgetting, IOKIYAAR.
tnlefty
(16,529 posts)Oh, as a Mom of two kids who played soccer...there are trips to the emergency room when they hit high school, and I would suggest that Stupid Ann get on a pitch with female players, especially goalies, 'cause when they need to, they'll come out after that ass'! I have sons, but watched the tryouts for the junior league to groom everyone for the team in Chattanooga...those females didn't take any shit...so bring it Ann, a nice kick upside the head, in the heat of the game, just might chill your stupid ass out!
T_i_B
(14,736 posts)More violent then American "football" but without the ridiculous body armour.
But then it's much more of a team game. Trying to play rugby with her "individualist" philosophy is a sure fire way to get yourself very badly hurt.
That'll confuse her.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)for eighty minutes with no breaks. And Union rules. League is just 7 aside. You at least have to have the possibility of a scrum to qualify as Rugby. This toe back business in league is a shame IMHO. The modern game is just so sweet to watch. Some of the Bocks and All Black matches are epic.
T_i_B
(14,736 posts)I remember one rugby match I attended there were 7 punch ups (the first after 15 seconds of play) and only one card in the whole match, given to a fly half for hands in the ruck.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)are designed as righteous punishment for wrong doing which is rough but not capriciously violent, like hockey used to be.
T_i_B
(14,736 posts)...I think the only reason why you don't see as much fisticuffs at Premier League or international level is that you've got the TV cameras about so you are much more likely to get caught.
I actually prefer watching rugby to football these days if truth be told. It's cheaper to watch a rugby match then a football match, the club I follow are very good (nearly won promotion to the premier league last season), and the atmosphere at the match is great! All of which would be lost on somebody like Ann Coulter I'm sure.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)of equipment costs. Several relatives played also and one of my junior classmates Hans DeGoode played two years with Cardiff. I love the game but I didn't have the lungs to continue after high school.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)Like any sport in the end one person scores.
What a dumb ass she is.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Paladin
(28,243 posts)She throws her little hissy-fit over soccer, laden with xenophobia and racism---right when all hell is breaking loose over Team USA's performance at this year's World Cup. In the last couple of days, I've seen big, enthusiastic celebrations on TV, from Chicago all the way to San Antonio. Deal with it, Ann---once a nation's young people are engaged in soccer programs from coast to coast, it's over.
Initech
(100,040 posts)exboyfil
(17,862 posts)my zero interest in World Cup. Don't have anything particularly against it - just not interested.
factsarenotfair
(910 posts)She seems to believe with every fiber of her being that she is a superior being.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Massively delusional grandiose ego.
Along with being twitchy and skinny.
factsarenotfair
(910 posts)And also from 2000-2008.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)It's a proven fact that about 96% of Americans disagree with her wholeheartedly. I have great faith that she's already slithered back to that rock she lives under. Ann Coulter represents about 2% of the population. The other 2% are forever 'undecided' and are only important to the media in the last month before a Presidential election.
randome
(34,845 posts)I guess McDonald's is into the whole 'moral decay' thing, too, huh, Ann? (Idiot!)
(Actually, there may be something to that with fast food restaurants being a sign of moral decay but...not for the reason you wanted, Coulter!)
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ananda
(28,836 posts)... with media credentials. Right.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)she would simply fade away as the little, small-minded person she is.
Ignore her.
JHB
(37,157 posts)...so I have shut off that service.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)The English, that's who. Do they also need to learn the language? They were playing football way before those Hispanics that bother you so much.
"The first set of football rules was drawn up at the University of Cambridge in 1848 and became particularly influential in the development of subsequent codes, including association football. Known as the Cambridge Rules, they were written at Trinity College, Cambridge, at a meeting attended by representatives from Eton, Harrow, Shrewsbury, Rugby and Winchester schools, though they were not universally adopted. During the 1850s, many clubs unconnected to schools or universities were formed throughout the English-speaking world, to play various forms of football. Some came up with their own distinct codes of rules, most notably the Sheffield Football Club, formed by former public school pupils in 1857, which led to formation of a Sheffield Football Association in 1867."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_association_football
It seems that all the moron's in the Republican party have been piping up regularly with asinine comments.
Cheney, Gingrich, Romney, Akin, Rhoda, etc.